Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi

Adnan Ismail Najm al-Bilawi al-Dulaimi (1971-4 June 2014), also known as Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, was the head of the military council of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the first stages of the Iraqi Civil War. He was killed during the takeover of Mosul in 2014.

Biography
Adnan Ismail Najm al-Bilawi al-Dulaimi was born in al-Khalidiya, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family, coming from the large Dulaimi tribe of Anbar Governorate; his tribe formed the nucleus of the anti-United States resistance during the Iraq War. al-Bilawi and future Anbar governor Ahmad Khalaf al-Dulaimi both attended the Iraqi Military Academy at around the same time, and al-Bilawi became a Captain in the Iraqi Army on graduation in 1993. He joined forces with al-Qaeda in Iraq under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi when war broke out, and he was detained at Camp Bucca in 2005 after being arrested. In July 2013, he was among 500 prisoners who escaped Abu Ghraib prison in a massive jailbreak, and he became a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's military shura on his escape. He planned and led the group's offensives in northern and central Iraq in 2014, and he was supposed to lead the Mosul offensive, but he was killed in an Iraqi raid on 4 June 2014. On 9 June, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria conquered Mosul and named their offensive after him, and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi replaced him as military chief.